Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 3

The ship had stranded some distance south of Nissum Bay, and the cruel, inhuman days, when, as we have just said, the inhabitants of Jutland treated the shipwrecked people so crudely were past, long ago.

Who acts: we, inhabitants · What happens: strand, say, treat, shipwreck, be · To what, where: ship, shipwrecked people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, inhabitants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stranded	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stranded	aux
4	stranded	strand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stranded	obj
7	south	south	ADV	_	6 distance	advmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Bay	case
9	Nissum	Nissum	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Bay	compound
10	Bay	Bay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 distance	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 days	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 days	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 days	det
14	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cruel	punct
16	inhuman	inhuman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stranded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 when	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stranded	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
22	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 said	advmod
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stranded	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 inhabitants	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 inhabitants	det
28	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 treated	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Jutland	case
30	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 inhabitants	nmod
31	treated	treat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
33	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 people	amod
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 treated	obj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 crudely	advmod
36	crudely	crudely	ADV	_	38 past	advmod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 past	cop
38	past	past	ADV	_	31 treated	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ago	punct
40	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 ago	advmod
41	ago	ago	ADV	_	31 treated	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stranded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	strand	past · perfect · passive		the ship		day		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present · perfect	we					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	treat	past	the inhabitants of Jutland		the shipwrecked people		ago property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient
4	shipwreck	participle						vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past					crudely, past property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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